Personal growth, site fixes, and my new project

There are a few things that I’ve been meaning to talk about over this month. I’ve two or three drafts that I’ve to revise before posting as it contains certain subjects regarding the linux community. It’s more of a matter to neutralize the language and choice of words. Personally, I’m not a fan of sugar coating, sadly I know that sometimes people just read one line and they are already writing an essay on how wrong I am.

That’s not the case today, thanks god!

Personal growth is something I’ve been meaning to take care of. It’s been one of my goals to socialize and know more about people I meet. If you know me at a personal you’ll see that I’m more of a straight arrow, especially at work. You bark the orders and I’ll follow them without looking right or left.

Toning down the participation in internet communities have allowed me to relax and focus on myself rather than wasting time on useless debates on how to handle corner cases, or which is the best editor. I no longer have the patience to sit down and write long paragraphs sharing my views with other people online; I’d rather have a talk in person which is more enjoyable than seeing a person trying to prove he or she is smart while slamming programming languages such as PHP, or whatever library as a method to find friends or colleagues.

I’ve stopped caring about stuff. I don’t want to meet you if all you do is:

being negative all the time

slamming frameworks, and other methodologies because it’s the popular thing to do

always looking to be right rather than being human. I’m not sure about you, let’s say you are right for a second, what exactly did you win? Pretty sure it’s not the lottery.

Every day I’m feeling better, and more capable of taking on issues. My goal this summer is to be less critical, and be more understanding when it comes to people’s issues. I know not everyone has thick skin and I’ve made a few mistakes in life that might have made some people feel awful.

Don’t get me wrong. I also do it because I want them to see the other side of the coin.

Site fixes!

I wrote a small code to fix Ghost blogging platform database. I had this problem where all posts were scrambled in Ghost content section. The issue happened because updated_at field in the database had NULL value in them, thus EmberJS didn’t handle them gracefully.

I’ll submit the fix I did after this post.

My new project

So basically, I know I’ve said in the past that I’ve been looking for open source projects to contribute code. Sadly I didn’t find any project that was interesting for me. Even LibreOffice became a chore rather than something to look forward to.

This project is a productivity tool that helps the user reduce the tasks of file handling greatly and gets you organized in no time. I did the first commit today after 3 weeks of brainstorming day and night.

This has taken a great deal of my time mostly because not being a C++ developer means that I’ve to learn the language and the libraries available to do things. And the idea being “unique” meant that I had to put extra time and effort to come up with a decent workflow.

A workflow is, in my opinion, one of the most important things in this application. Which is why I’ve been analyzing each use-case and making sure that the user receives the best experience ever.

We’ll see how things go from here.

Even if it fails, so what? I got from it a lot of knowledge that I can now put to use in the real world.